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Jan 31, 2008 at 12:01 AM

Sally Jablonski, owner of Herbert Berg Florists and president of the Worcester Executives Association , recently presented a check for $12,000 to Vincent Perrone, Air Force Lt. Col. (Ret.), president and CEO of the Massachusetts Veterans Inc. in Worcester, at the association’s annual dinner. The event was held at The Hogan Campus Center at Holy Cross College.

The award represents proceeds from A Toast to Our Massachusetts Veterans, a wine-tasting and auction held Oct. 24 and sponsored by the Worcester Executives Association at the National Guard Military Museum, 44 Salisbury St. The event was held to recognize the sacrifices service men and women have made for our country.

A Toast to Our Massachusetts Veterans featured both live and silent auctions, a selection of domestic and imported wines from KJ Baaron’sFine Wine & Spirits and food served by many of Worcester County’s finest restaurants and caterers.

Since 1992, Massachusetts Veterans Inc. on Grove Street in Worcester has provided a safe, strictly enforced, drug-free and alcohol-free emergency shelter for more than 5,000 veterans. Every night throughout the year, as many as 130 veterans in need are accommodated within the shelter and its transitional housing services.

The shelter serves as a home base from which an individual can regain control over his or her life. Each veteran is given 30 days of emergency shelter. Those individuals who require more rehabilitative support can remain at the shelter and participate in the in-house program.

Worcester Executives Association, the oldest networking organization in Massachusetts, is in its 68th year. For more information, visit www.WorcesterExecutives.com.

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WORCESTER — In recognition of their continued efforts to limit ties between physicians and drug or medical device manufacturers, state Sen. Richard T. Moore, D-Uxbridge, presented a resolution from the Massachusetts Senate to UMass Memorial Medical Center administrators last week.

UMass Memorial Medical Center, the clinical affiliate of the University of Massachusetts Medical School, recently adopted some of the strictest conflict-of-interest rules in the country, designed to sharply limit close ties between doctors and the makers of drugs and medical devices.

This policy discourages the corrupting influence of improper and unethical marketing that some feel places drug and device company profits above the interests of the patients.

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